Summary: Colin Beavan is a New York City writer and self-proclaimed liberal. He has big plans for his new book. He decides on a grand experiment: to live one year with as little impact on the environment as possible. The problem is, the project requires his wife Michelle, an espresso-guzzling, Prada-worshipping business writer, and their young daughter to be fully on board. The family embarks on a year...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2010

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Summary: In February 1972, celebrated jazz musician Lee Morgan was shot dead by his common-law wife Helen during a gig at a club in New York City. The murder sent shockwaves through the jazz community, and the memory of the event still haunts those who knew the Morgans. This feature documentary by filmmaker Kasper Collin is a love letter to two unique personalities and the music that brought them together.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fisher Klingenstein Ventures, LLC 2016

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Summary: Inspired by She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger comes a chapter book series about women who stood up, spoke up, and rose up against the odds. This collection includes the first eight biographies in the series.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Summary: Contemporary art reflects the ideas of our time, and artists are the creative role models grappling with today's most timely questions. What is the nature of reality? How do we respond to a world in flux? Why do some historical events shape the way we think today, and why have some been forgotten? Explore these ideas and many more in Season Six of Art in the Twenty-First Century. Spotlights...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2012

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Summary: On 12.12.12 some of the world's leading artists came together for a live, one-night-only fundraising concert at Madison Square Garden to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Sandy. The concert was broadcast all across North & South America, Europe, Africa, Asia & Australia. The all-star line-up includes The Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, Eric Clapton, Billy Joel, Alicia Keys, Chris Martin, Paul...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Hubert

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Comics Lit 2009

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Summary: "Sunset Story is a funny and intimate documentary that will make you think differently about growing old. It tells the story of Irja (81) and Lucille (95), two friends at a rest home for retired radicals. As they attend demonstrations, register their fellow residents to vote and debate everything under the sun, Irja and Lucille's verve and humor delight us. Sunset Story doesn't shy away from...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Capital Entertainment 2005

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Summary: In 1960, a filmmaking group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy, Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis, and, following the president's assassination, the poetic short Faces of November. Collected here are all four of these titles,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Smith, Jack

Summary: A collection of avant garde films preserved by the Library of Congress.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2009

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Halbert, Frederic

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. 1978

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Albers, Susan

Summary: Albers has discovered that the key to successful weight loss is not physical exercise, calorie counting, or willpower-- it's emotional intelligence (EI). Learn how to use EI to strengthen your relationship with food, and get out of the vicious cycle of dieting failure.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2013

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Alberti, Rafael

Summary: A bilingual anthology by a Spanish poet, illustrated with paintings that inspired it. In the poem, Botticelli, accompanied by the painting, The Birth of Venus, he writes: "Upon the sea / all is curling witchery, / twirling curl / & rippling wave, / a geometric order / carried to the border / by uncooling winds that shower bird & flower."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Northwestern University Press 1997

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Collis, Len.

Summary: Gives instruction for a variety of card games for one, two, three or more players.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's 1989

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Summary: The interrupted journey : After reconsidering eloping with another womanat the last minute, John North pulls the emergency break on the train he is traveling on and returns home to his wife. Later on, after the train crashes and many of the passengers end up dying including his mistress, John becomes a suspect when the police discover that she had been murdered prior to the crash.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Greene, Thomas Christopher.

Summary: Inspired by a personal loss, Greene explores the way that tragedy and time assail one man's memories of his life and loves. Like his father before him, Arthur Winthrop is the Headmaster of Vermont's elite Lancaster School. It is the place he feels has given him his life, but is also the site of his undoing as events spiral out of his control. Found wandering naked in Central Park, he begins to...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

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Albers, Susan.

Summary: " In this much-anticipated follow-up to Fifty Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food, renowned nutrition expert and New York Times best-selling author of Eat Q, Susan Albers delivers fifty more highly effective ways to help you soothe yourself without eating-leading to a healthier, happier life! If you're an emotional overeater, you may turn to food to cope with stress and sadness, enhance joy,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Holling, Holling Clancy

Summary: Follows the adventures of Minn, a three-legged snapping turtle, as she slowly makes her way from her birthplace at the headwaters of the Mississippi River to the mouth of river on the Gulf of Mexico.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1951

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Alburt, Lev.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 1997

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Aubert, Dany

Summary: Martin and his mother talk about Martin's worries about starting school, while his little sister wishes that she was old enough to go, too.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: minedition 2020

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Summary: Featuring an incredible array of the greatest musicians of the '70s and early '80s. It stands alone in the history of rock n roll as the first ever late-night live concert show on TV, capturing the spirit of a time when rock was exploding in so many new, exciting directions. For nine thrilling years, The Special brought audience the very best live music from every genre, rare performances right...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Little, Elbert L. (Elbert Luther)

Summary: An identification guide to trees of western North America, with 855 color photographs, three identification keys, and detailed descriptive information.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1980

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Halbert, Sam.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1997

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Albers, Susan

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger 2009

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